Playa del Carmen, Q.R. — Braille blocks being installed in central Playa del Carmen are expected to be finished by mid-September. The city is installing tactile flooring along Quinta Avenue (Fifth Avenue) in the city’s busy pedestrian shopping area.
According to Dagoberto Holguin, a local politician who heads the Unit for Persons with Disabilities, the tactile flooring will benefit around 6,000 Playa del Carmen residents with visual impairments.
The installed braille will provide information about the surroundings of the street such as the location of stairs, curves, intersections and where crosswalks begin and end, as well as where a sidewalk ends and a road begins.
Municipal workers are currently removing a strip of street pavers and replacing them with the marked tactile flooring to help the visually impaired. The braille blocks are being installed from Paseos del Carmen shopping plaza toward 6 and 8 Streets North.
